Greg Egan
Sign in to saveAustralian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961-08-20
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3
- 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
- Tiempo profundo
- Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3
- Morphotrophic
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 78
- Total plays
- 847
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,840x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- How Many Interviews Are Enough?
· 2006 · cited 15,404x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,222x
- The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,414x
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Quotes
- “There are moments when my mind misses a beat. I find myself, in mid-step or mid-breath, feeling as if delivered abruptly into my body after a long absence (spent where, I could not say), or a long, dreamless sleep. I lose not my memory, merely my thread. My attention has inexplicably wandered, but a little calm introspection restores my context and brings me peace. Almost peace.”
- “Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”
- “On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.”
- “"How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel."”
- “I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit -- preferably around the sun. I don't care how much it costs, just so long as I don't end up part of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.”
- “Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.”
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 August 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Perth
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Western Australia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
Connections
Categories
1961 births20th-century Australian novelists21st-century Australian novelistsAmateur mathematiciansAustralian atheistsAustralian computer programmersAustralian male novelistsAustralian science fiction writersHugo Award–winning writersIMDb title ID different from WikidataLiving peopleUniversity of Western Australia alumni